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A team of four mechanical engineering students from the University of Pennsylvania won the 2013 Dyson Award competition, along with a $48,000 donation for their development of Titan Arm, a powered upper-body exoskeleton. An additional $16,000 was also awarded to UPenn’s engineering department....More

New research from Georgia Institute of Technology shows that when given the choice between robots with a human appearance, a mix of human and robotic appearance, or a strictly robotic appearance, 60% of older adults want robots with human faces, and only 6% want ones that have a mixed human-robot appearance....More

Intouch Health is using iRobot's RP-Vita Remote Presence Robot to bring a doctor's expertise to remote locations. The telepresence robot features autonomous navigation capabilities, modular bays with a variety of inputs and medical gear, a ControlStation app for iPad, and cloud-based infrastructure for reliable communications....More

We had covered the Robot Car Unmanned Vehicle back in 2009, but the kit has come a long way since then. The new Uomo version can be installed in as little as 10 minutes, and provides tele-operation and GPS path following control for the vehicle it's installed on....More

Developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, HDT Robotics, Synbotics, and Silvus Technologies, Robo Sally allows humans to operate in dangerous situations and still have full capabilities using its highly dexterous robotic arms, stereo vision, and an all terrain mobile platform....More

Open-source software is giving rise to emerging breeds of quasi-commercial, prosthetic, and industrial robots. Robot Operating System (ROS) software — a suite of software libraries that help developers create robot applications — is fast becoming the dominant information-exchange code in both research and industrial robots....More

Identifying the best gripper for the application can be a daunting task given the thousands of different combinations, part numbers, and variation in gripper names. Yet there are only three basic types of grippers. Knowing the fundamentals of each can help engineers narrow their choices and speed the design process....More

What is a robot without its arm or means to grip and move objects? Not much. However, it's only been over the last 40 years that mechanical motion precision, controls, sensing, and feedback have advanced enough to refine robotic handling to the realm of indispensable....More

Today's advanced mobile robots explore complex terrains across the globe and even on Mars, but have difficulty traversing sand and other granular surfaces like dirt, rubble, or slippery piles of leaves...More